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Alec Baldwin will be able to play Scrabble to his heart’s content in a
few months, when aviation regulators are expected to loosen the rules for
using electronic devices on aircraft.

The
actor was kicked off a flight almost two years ago when he refused to
turn off his mobile phone after the plane doors were closed. He had been
playing Words With Friends.

Existing aviation rules require passengers to switch off all electronic
devices until the aircraft is above 10,000ft, but aerospace engineers admit
in private that the ban is largely redundant and needs to be applied only to